The Daily Glance
Joanne Kyger's Permission by the Horns is a short e-chapbook filled with one long poem in three parts. The piece flows well and is quite fun to read because Kyger bounces every few lines to a new topic, but each time she changes, it's clear what she's talking about. In other words, she's not using language to push us back to a new perspective; rather, she's taking us along as her perception jumps from idea to idea. In an odd way, that process reminds me of reading Levertov, though Kyger's work is not like Levertov's.
Circle of seven men standing, outdoors, all eating asparagus.
Thank god I don't write Everything down.
Easy to mock with a calculatedly caustic tone
his aspirations as he became
so sexually and emotionally open.
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